Tuesday foreign authoritative resource Digitimes reported development of Apple’s brand new smartphone “iPhone Pro”. According to the publication, diagonal display new items will be even better than the iPhone 6 Plus: the company allegedly ordered a 5.8-inch panel with OLED matrix. The expert DisplayMate ray saunière thinks it is on display, wrapped around the body.
According to him, Apple engineers chose the 5.8-inch flexible OLED display to create a fundamentally new iPhone. The flexible display of this device will resemble the displays of the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge, but will go not only on the side faces of the device, and to encircle the body. Apple currently assesses the efficiency of replacing physical buttons adjust the volume and enable the touch, placed on the side faces. For obvious reasons, in this iPhone there will be no mechanical controls instead which are virtual counterparts.
In favor of what the future iPhone may get curved display, the presence of several patents in Apple’s portfolio. So, last year, California giant has patented a method of making such screens. The patent, issued to the company in the beginning of 2016, describes an electronic device with a display that wrapped around the body. In the description of the patent it comes to the so-called “electronic device with envelope display” (Electronic device with a wrapped display). The idea is to apply gadgets screens, capable of deformation, in particular, to bending.
In the Apple guess iPhone with the display setting on the edge of the hull will allow implementing new modes of image view, and will also provide the opportunity to display additional information. The curved display will be able to maximize the size of the shell smartphone.
At the present stage of development of the technology of such design is possible only with the use of OLED displays on flexible substrate. And that’s why Apple reportedly turned to Samsung, LG and Japan Display.
We will remind, last week the Japanese newspaper Nikkei reported that Apple has decided to accelerate the introduction of OLED technology for displays in its smartphone line-up and to release the first iPhone with OLED display in 2017 and not in 2018, as previously expected. In November last year, sources reported that Apple is planning to switch to OLED displays in the iPhone in 2018.
